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Well I'll be damned, after years of posting requests and suggestions on how to revamp the GTN to combat inflation, we're actually getting some of them.
Some additional suggestions though:
* Historical sale data is a must, and would be especially nice if it was available outside the GTN, so we can tell when we pick up something especially juicy.
* Please stop mailing us credits on sale. It's a painful, clunky system that makes no real sense.
* Item listing notifications please. Set an item and price range, and get notified (NOT by mail, some kind of unobtrusive popup/message) when a listing matches.Also, please get rid of the QT tax introduced last time. Terrible idea. Makes me roll my eyes every time I QT.
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A credit cap will not end inflation so much as end the economy as a whole.
If people cannot get a market price for their items, they just aren't going to sell them. Sure the prices won't be inflated anymore... but then their won't be items anymore.
The only reasonable way to artificially get prices down is to artificially increase supply (since artificially reducing demand wouldn't make sense). In RL terms this comes in the form of government grants and subsidies to specific industries or products to encourage increased production. BW fortunately has it much easier, as they can just create the items out of thin air.
It would need to be handled genlty (and maybe even secretly so as not to annoy the whales, as someone noted earlier) but this could drain a lot of money out of the economy via the GTN
I would also support a massive expansion of the crafting system to make it more accessible, productive and more interesting (it's a boring grind as is), but this might be stretching things a bit far
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I feel like these changes fundamentally misunderstand the nature of markets.
Most notably... you seem to be largely ignoring the actual market and relying on "administrative" changes (taxes) to influence the economy.
While this can certainly be a part of it, the market is the vast, powerful engine of the economy and if handled properly, will have a vastly outsized, and far less controversial, effect on prices.
So my suggestion is one I've made a number of times in the past, but now seems as good a time to make it again: Increase GTN Accessibility and Usage
The GTN tax is probably one of, if not the biggest, credit sinks in the game, and importantly is a tax that does not punish new players. Simply put, the more sales occur on the GTN, the more credits are drained from the economy. More importantly though, the more supply on the GTN will drive down prices, not through any tax, but based on the simple laws of supply and demand.
So the two goals here are obvious enough: Make it easier for people to supply and make it easier for people to buy
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Increasing Supply: The idea here is to make it easier and more desirable for people to list on the GTN. As it stands now, many items are expensive/non-existent on the GTN largely because people are too lazy to list it, or don't know they can list it for a lot of money (Ex. Inspiration Vestments are very high value. How many world drops are just vendored because no one knows it's value?)
- Show GTN pricing information on an items info panel (perhaps as an extended menu accessed via modifier key to keep down clutter). This will incentivize players to list items on the GTN rather than just vendoring them, with the higher the value, the better.
- Allow GTN listing at more locations, and even in the field (ex. through a legacy perk/purchase). If it's just as easy to list on the GTN rather then vendoring, they'll go for the option that has the best value
- Quick Listing: Have preset listing prices on listing for "one click listing" to maximize ease of access (ex. a list item for 5% below current average price, current lowest price etc.) Custom pricing will still be allowed of course.
- Have a dedicated UI for collecting money from the GTN. Using the mail is, frankly, an awful system.
- Improve the listing UI for filtering and sorting listings
- Provide a UI for providing historical sale information. If people know about hot items, supply will naturally flow to fill that demand
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Increasing Purchases: The idea here is, like above, to make it easier for users to find what they want, as well as advertise what they want.
- Add Buy listings. Fairly self explanatory, let players add buy listing for a specific price. If a seller doesn't want to wait for a buyer, they can sell it directly and immediately. Could automatically fulfill a buy listing when creating a sell listing as well if the list price is less than or equal to a buy listing.
- Smart Search: Add autocomplete to the text search, as well as text based categories (ex: adding :armor Mandalorian will search under armor for everything containing the text "Mandalorian"
- Price Watches: Can place watches on specific items to give a notification based on pricing information, or show historical data (useful for sellers too)
A system like this should massively increase the supply on the GTN and increase the use of the GTN tax, which will both benefit inflation. It will also make interacting with the GTN a better user experience in general, so win-win.
Some of these are obviously fairly big items, but they could be rolled out incrementally fairly easily.
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Increasing Supply: The idea here is to make it easier and more desirable for people to list on the GTN. As it stands now, many items are expensive/non-existent on the GTN largely because people are too lazy to list it, or don't know they can list it for a lot of money (Ex. Inspiration Vestments are very high value. How many world drops are just vendored because no one knows it's value?)
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6 hours ago, SteveTheCynic said:
Right now? Since it's on PTS at the moment, you follow the normal PTS procedures, which probably means either installing the PTS version alongside the "Live" version (if you don't currently have it installed) or a near-total redownload of your existing PTS installation if you have one.
Or do you mean "when it's released on Live"? I would hope that the scripting and data sets are independent of the bitness of the client, which means a new SWTOR.EXE and associated .DLL files, but no new asset data unless it's launched with a new expansion, in which case there'd be a "normal" download for the expansion's updated assets and the new SWTOR.EXE and it's .DLLs.
No guarantees, though.
There is a very real possibility this will involve a complete redownload of the game when it goes to live, as the compression format of the .tor archives has changed.
The asset files themselves should be the same, so if the updater is smart enough to migrate the assets in place, we might be fine, but I'm not super optimistic.
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Tried it out quick. Didn't spend much time in it, but one thing I noticed right off the bat is a fairly significant reduction in load performance.
I know that the assets are using a new compression format, so I'm guessing this is having some growing pains. It's not catastrophic but quite noticeable (both live and PTS on same SSD)
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13 hours ago, Char_Ell said:
LOL. You've made your position abundantly clear. As someone who plays mainly on Satele Shan I also am not in favor of a server merge.
That being said I wonder how you would feel if Satele Shan was your main server? It stands to reason that your self-centered views would cause you to feel differently since you obviously value your own experience over all others. Not to say that is wrong, just pointing out you clearly are not willing to accept any compromises or hindrances to your own gameplay experience. And yet you've had to endure at least one prior server merge and are still here. I guess you must have had either little to no negative impact from prior server merge or got over any forced character renames.
Flawed logic, pointing out the position of the majority is hardly self centered. Quite the opposite in fact.
A better solution to this problem would be for BW to strongly encourage new or returning players to setup shop on the least populous server. Or if BW really saw it as a problem, they could offer discounts on transfers to SS to re-kindle the population
It won't help the OPs players much of course, they've already thoroughly established their cliques and are now sleeping in a bed of their own creation. (which is not to say all Ops players are like that, but the community as a whole has sealed its own fate really)
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Ugh, please no.
Server character cap issues, name conflicts and overcrowding just for what? So PvP players get faster pops on off hours?
Star Forge is already busier than I like. I'm constantly having to switch to other instances to get away from the crowds, and it doesn't always work as those can be busy too.
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This again?
Why must this small coalition of players pull the tired "YOU LIED TO US BIOWARE!!!!!!" every time all the other tired tropes they constantly complain about gets old even to them?
They didn't lie you simply misunderstood either accidentally or on purpose.
I'm guessing on purpose. It's been out since February and the information about how it will work has been out even longer.
Just yet another rant to get a rise out of people. Which sadly is a sizable portion of the forums these days
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If you're feeling adventurous, you can run pingplotter to find where the packets are being dropped between you and the server.
This information can be forward to your ISP and/or SWTOR team (to forward to their ISP) so they can yell at whoever owns the failing infrastructure. (unless it's happening at your router, at which point you'll need to fix that yourself)
You can also try a VPN, which may send your traffic down a non-problematic route.
Otherwise, you'll just have to be patient.
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The only thing they do is influence some story elements (some different comments made by other characters for example, as well as different story endings) as well as physical appearance if DS 1 or higher (which can be turned off if you don't like it)
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I always do the first one straight but destroy the list
Some random grunts die in the blasts, but the important collaborators are safe, and the end result is by far the best.
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Is there any chance you’d let us have different lightsaber styles in the outfitter? For example a double bladed one with a Sith Warrior?
If by Sith Warrior you mean Juggernaut and Marauder, then no, I can confidently say they won't do that (animations don't fit etc.)
Otherwise, you already can have a double bladed lightsaber on a Sith Warrior. You just need to pick either the Assassin or Shadow combat style.
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I have 61 characters.
It's not how many characters you have, but how many character slots you have.
Khaleijo is correct that this should be the first thing you should check. Most likely you've been running on the "temporary freebie" slots all this time.
If it turns out you do have that many character slots, then ask again for greater detail on the slot purchase history and how many you had before. This is information they should have.
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First of all, this is the wrong subforum for this. This belongs in Suggestion Box (over in General Discussion). This forum is for the discussion of the wider Star Wars galaxy, not SWTOR.
Second of all, as noted above, that man is now a poison pill for Star Wars. Anything he touches will flop miserably (even if it actually isn't bad)
If it wasn't for KK's messed up priorities, he'd be out on his butt after TLJ
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Well, Inquisitor jumps in power by being possessed by ghosts.
The SI does not get possessed by the ghosts (despite their best efforts), they bind the ghosts and feed on their power
Completely different thing
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I for one welcome them cutting out the bloat.
I swear most of each patch notes was them trying to balance around all of it.
More bug fixes and QoL please. Enough time is wasted on the infinite time sink that is balance as it is.
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Let's not forget how the Consular grows weaker and weaker with every Jedi they shield from the plague, and then still manages to take on Lord Vivicar in their very weakened state.
Which is still the same thing, we do not know how much weaker they got, or how powerful Lord Vivicar actually was, considering he was just a fallen Jedi possessed by an arrogant old Sith ghost.
And if there is one thing we can count on for Sith is a rather overinflated view of their own power
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Just like the thread on the JK and SW, this really is just going to boil down to personal head canon and "this is my favourite class to play, so it must be that class is more powerful too!"
The real answer is, we do not have enough information to make a judgement on this.
What's more impressive? the ability to rip apart giant doors or tank a dark council member's all out lightning storm?
Torturing someone with telepathy vs with lightning?
With or without ghosts? Would the healing ritual break the SI control of the ghosts? Would it matter regardless?
Does it matter that the JC gets their *** kissed at every opportunity vs the SI being labelled as scum until no one dared say it again?
Questions we honestly do not have answers to.
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I'll accept time travel if it means the sequel trilogy gets pushed into a different timeline and ignored.
All in all though, I don't see it happening here. Time travel tends to make for very messy, and very lazy, storytelling.
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The best long term solution to all these kinds of problems is to switch to using Steam.
Much more reliable, and much faster patching, though yah, it does require a redownload so if you're on a slower internet connection, this can hurt.
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Darth Marr and Kalatosh Zavros.. if i remember well, Ashara's ancestor wasn't exactly a Jedi.. or he was a fallen one
Kalatosh was a full fledged Jedi Master before falling to the dark side and joining Revan and Malak's Empire
Not that it really matters. This is all legends whereas the whole "only light siders can be ghosts" is a canon thing.
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After the initial memberberries hit wares off the show is distinctively mediocre
I'm willing to let a lot pass but man the writing is comically bad at times.
There's literary a scene and then a plot hole regarding that scene in the very next or even the same scene. That's some next level cognitive dissonance or they're doing design by committee again.
Such as?
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Tales of the Jedi being half Ahsoka, for some reason.
The simple reason is she is a very popular and "safe" character who will make Disney money (by safe, I mean that they can be fairly confident of a positive fan response)
The other simple reason is that because Dave Filoni is the creator of Ahsoka (with GL), is very attached to the character and has enormous influence creatively at Lucasfilm, it's not surprising she keeps popping up. Especially when the character reliably makes Disney lots of $$$
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In order
Ahsoka
Mando S3 (very close 2nd)
Bad Batch (more distant 3rd)
The Ahsoka episodes of Tales of the Jedi (don't care about CD. Would probably rate higher if they were longer and more of them)
Everything else is basically off my radar. I'd be more than happy to be pleasantly surprised by Andor (I was by The Mandalorian so who knows).
7.4 GTN Preview Live on PTS
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I like a lot of what I'm seeing here, but a couple points I'm definitely not happy with are the 30 day time limit on claims. which I find very irritating. It'd be like Paypal vanishing your money on your account from a payment if you don't withdraw it.
I will also join the choir saying removing items before adding them to the game somewhere else is not good. Please make sure they have been added to the game (simple vendor should do, another good way to drain credits)